Hardening Your CI/CD: Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes Security

As I continue this series on CI/CD pipeline security, it is time to now work on securely building and deploying our application. This post picks up where my Build Secure Python Pipelines: Adding Tests and Hooks in Action post left off. In this post, we’ll continue our pipeline development by adding a container build and … Read more

Build Secure Python Pipelines: Adding Tests and Hooks in Action

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As we continue this series started in my Getting Started with Secure CI/CD: Essential Practices for Beginners post, I’ll be securing my Python code with automated testing and hooks. While some of this information builds on some previous posts I’ve created in the past, I still wanted to incorporate these together in a meaningful way. … Read more

Getting Started with Secure CI/CD: Essential Practices for Beginners

I think it’s time to focus on a few key practices for beginners to implement secure CI/CD. I’ve been building the idea on the idea of a CI/CD pipeline in a bunch of the below posts: All of these articles are a scattering of topics based upon some of the daily randomness that I’ve faced … Read more

DMARC Reports: Your Secret Weapon Against Domain Fraud (And How to Read Them)

I recently received Emails for my Shopify stores Momma Bears Creations and InkedWith regarding missing DMARC DNS entries. The Email was titled: Add a DMARC record to continue sending emails from your domain. An example of the Email is below Gmail and Yahoo have announced changes that require you to add a DMARC record on your domain before February 1, 2024 if … Read more

From Reactive to Proactive: Transforming Security with Tetragon

I previously blogged about Starboard and How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster. These articles were focused more on vulnerability and configuration management. Now, I wanted to focus my attention on runtime security observability using Tetragon. Getting Started With Tetragon The first step is to install it. The Tetragon website recommends … Read more